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Iran summons French envoy, calling minister's Cannes comments 'insulting'

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi on the red carpet at the Cannes film festival. Iran has summoned the French envoy in Tehran after the French Foreign Minister called Panahi's winning the festival's top prize a "gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime’s oppression", comments Iran said were "insulting". © Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP

Iran summoned France’s envoy in Tehran over what it said were “insulting” comments by the French Foreign Minister following Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s win of the top prize at the Cannes film festival.

In a post on X French Foreign Minister called the awarding of the Cannes Palme d’Or to Panahi “a gesture of resistance against the Iranian regime’s oppression".

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